Vanduara, Or Odds and Ends, Personal, Social, and Local, from Recollections of By-past TimesJ. and R. Parlane, 1880 - 170 ページ |
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admiration adventure afforded afterwards amusement ancient appearance Archibald Gardner assembled attended Bailies and Council bank beauty Bell Race boat Bramble breakfast bullocks Burgh camp Canal century character Clerk club Clyde crew crowd deer dinner duck early Edinburgh Edmund Kean enjoyment excitement fame feeling fishing florist gave genius Glasgow Gourock Greenock harbour Hector High-street Highland Holyrood honour horse hour immense inhabitants of Paisley interest James Johnstone Kean King kingdom of Scotland ladies literary Loch Loch Long Lord loyalty Majesty Majesty's manner Mearns miles morning Motherwell native night noble notice occasion occupied Othello Paisley Grammar School pamphlets person Port-Glasgow Praetorium present racecourse record Renfrewshire residence respected River Cart royal says Scotland shigram shot Silver Bell Sir Walter soon Stewart street taste Theatre town of Paisley Union Vanduara Via Regia village weaver William Motherwell writings young
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156 ページ - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacquey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt; And, in clear dream and .solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
64 ページ - The King at his first levee diverted many, and delighted Scott, by appearing in the full Highland garb, —the same brilliant Steuart Tartans, so called, in which certainly no Steuart, except Prince Charles, had ever before presented himself in the saloons of Holyrood. His Majesty's Celtic toilette had been carefully watched and assisted by the gallant Laird of Garth, who was not a little proud of the result of his dexterous manipulations of the royal plaid, and pronounced the King
64 ページ - Guildhall grows Gael, and echoes with Erse roar, While all the Common Council cry " Claymore ! " To see proud Albyn's tartans as a belt Gird the gross sirloin of a city Celt...
146 ページ - I call upon the holy prelates of our religion to do away this iniquity ; let them perform a lustration, to purify the country from this deep and deadly sin. My lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more ; but my feelings and indignation were too strong to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor even reposed my head upon my pillow, without giving vent to my eternal abhorrence of such enormous and preposterous principles.
xiv ページ - On the north side, the dyke goeth alongst the foot of the hill ; and if we allow it to have gone so far on the other side it hath enclosed all the space of ground on which the town of Paisley stands, and it may be judged to be about a mile in compass.
17 ページ - The author of the elegy upon poor Grahame, is John Wilson, a young man of very considerable poetical powers. He is now engaged in a poem called the Isle of Palms, something in the style of Southey. He is an eccentric genius, and has fixed himself upon the banks of Windermere, but occasionally resides in Edinburgh, where he now is.
51 ページ - ... to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
64 ページ - And he did look a most stately and imposing person in that beautiful dress ; but his satisfaction therein was cruelly disturbed when he discovered, towering and blazing among and above the genuine Glengarries and Macleods and MacGregors, a figure even more portly than his own, equipped from a sudden impulse of loyal ardour in an equally complete set of the self-same conspicuous Stewart tartans : — ' He caught Sir William Curtis in a kilt — While throtigM the chiefs of every Highland clan To hail...
xiii ページ - Praetorium is not very large, but hath been well fortified with three Foussees and Dikes of Earth, which must have been large, when to this day their vestiges are so great, that men on horseback will not see over them. The Camp itself...
xiii ページ - Foussees and Dikes of Earth, which must have been large, when to this day their vestiges are so great, that men on horseback will not see over them. The Camp itself hath been great and large, it comprehending the whole Hill. There are vestiges on the Northside of the Foussee and Dike whereby it appears that the Camp reached to the River of Cart.